A Malacandrian hnau, described as "something like a penguin, something like an otter, and something like a seal." They enjoy poetry, and have a complicated art about it. Lewis probably took the word hross from an old (or Icelandic) word for horse.

To long for something (there's a distinction between hluntheline and wondelone; hluntheline is something no rational person could do, and wondelone is something no rational person could fail to do. Hmm..)